Hi there, the Sketch MeXure Plugin is not working with the newer version of Sketch, which has frames and Stacks. Can someone help me with that? I tried a few tricks mentioned in the community forum, but they didn’t work. Any help would be really appreciated
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Hello @panthshah, thanks for joining us in the forum!
Sketch Meaxure is a third-party plugin, and therefore, it was created and maintained by a developer outside our organization. A few weeks ago, we inquired with the developer about its status, and the author told us they no longer support it and won’t work in modern software OS or Sketch versions. See our conversation with the developer here. Therefore, we can’t expect any solution with this plugin anytime soon. Sorry. It doesn’t depend on us.
As an alternative, our Sketch subscription can offer you a better experience, created and maintained by us. Our web Inspector includes options to inspect and copy values and layer properties on the web directly over your designs. As you can see in our documentation, our Inspector offers more tools than Sketch Meaxure, all included in the same subscription price.
I hope that helps!
Thank you so much for your reply , I do understand. For security reasons , we can’t use the handoff thing on the browser, if you have anything which is similar to this plugin or can help me the smooth dev handoff , it would be great. I tried to find it but couldn’t got any leads yet
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Hi @panthshah, could you drop us an email telling us more about your needs and security restrictions?
We’d love to know more about your case so we can look for possible solutions in the future. Please send your message to productsupport@sketch.com
the reasons that I don’t like using Sketch web inspector are: 1. viewers or guests must be a registerd sketch.com user. which creates a poor client experience. 2. the loading speed is very slow. 3.It requires an internet connection. In some cases, we present our design work locally.
In contrast to the Sketch-MeXure plugin, is simply just like "export“ in adobe photoshop or illustration, very efficient.
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Hi,
@JorgeF we have the same problem as @panthshah .
And it’s an existential one for us.
Our clients don’t allow an online handoff process. It is not negotiable and so we got very dependent on the one-and-only maeXture plugin.
The only alternative for us is to do all the measurement and writing every spacing and every colourcode down by hand and export a PNG - the option our clients would force us to establish if we can not deliver the html export zip with maexture anymore - the commercial consequences would be severe for us and the devs would be much less happy receiving these instead of the HTML’s they are used to.
The offline workflow Sketch allows is actually the key-reason why we suggest the tool to our clients in a special area of work and why we use it. And its’s a huge USP and benefit comparing to Figma.
The only bit missing is the html export with an inspectable board, assets and colours. This gap was closed by maeXture for the last 12 years (that’s the time we use this workflow for all our projects).
We were stuck with the version 101.9 until few weeks ago…. Now using the Version of MaeXture available in Chinese with Barcelona with the uncertainty of how this will continue.
I know at least a few other companies and freelancers with bigger teams with the same problem searching for alternatives to Sketch and an offline workflow.
We would love to continue with Sketch and be able to use all the new cool features.
The question we have is - will there be a native function for exporting an offline HTML zip to have an inspectable board including assets like in MaeXture?
thx
Hello @tanci and welcome to the forum!
I’m afraid we don’t have such a tool offline, as developer handoff is part of our subscription as an online offering only. We’re aware of this concern and I’m going to add your feedback internally to the existing pull of requests.
In any case, I’d like to dial in @rodionovd who has studied this case in the past too, perhaps he can give some insight on how the support of this plugin looks like in the foreseeable future. As we said in this topic before, it’s a third party plugin in the end and it doesn’t depend on us wether it’s supported or not.
I must say though (and please Dmitry correct me if I’m wrong) that the latest core features we introduced in Sketch are currently supported so it should be easy (for their developers) to keep support for any plugin that covers these bases already.
Hey there!
As mentioned by Jorge above, we unfortunately don’t provide a first-party alternative to the Sketch Meaxure plugin (and the likes).
We do, however, take backwards compatibility for plugins seriously – meaning that plugins that currently work with Athens, Barcelona, and Copenhagen will likely stay compatible with future Sketch updates. Of course we may inadvertently introduce a breaking change or two, in which case we’ll try to work with plugin developers to minimize the downtime for everyone.
Hi,
thank you for the quick response.
The problem is - the person that as maintained the plugin doesn’t do it anymore. So there is only a quickfix by someone who also really needed it - in chinese.
In our desperate situation we have allocated one of our colleagues to try to re-create the plugin for us. Which - to be honest - is a dire situation, having a team of three desingers and one has to teach himself programming plugins now.
@JorgeF And there is something I need to add - some aspects from sales perspective on the issue.
Maybe my first comment regarding the motivation for the offline workflow was misunderstood.
I am not sure - but maybe I have created the impression that we need the offline workflow because we (or the developers) don’t want to invest in the cloud license - I have to correct this.
We have the cloud license anyway (of course!). Either there is the option for exporting an inspectable .html or not - we would have it.
The developers also have it.
Now you probably think - What is the problem then?
The clients prohibit this kind of handoff for legal and security reasons. And we cannot do anything about this.
Offering an offline handoff option won’t discourage anyone from purchasing a cloud license to save costs. I am 20 years in business - no designer or developer would ever voluntarily choose an offline handoff process (not a single sane person).
But however there are projects - outside the standard web development software business domain - including decision makers, project managers, legal teams in between who decide how it is done.
As usual, these guys won’t feel the pain — that’s left to the designers, and especially the developers reverse-engineering colours and measurements form some pixelated images embedded in a word document (worst case).
We are designers and we deliver packaged specification within a .zip-file via a secure data transfer channel (clients choice). We have no say in this.
Our clients do not develop the software in house - so they have to have a file which they can easily forward to a third party company so they can implement it. Our client won’t buy any sketch or other UI/UX software licenses anyway - because they don’t have any designers or developers in house. Why should they invest in a tool they don’t need and are not capable to use?
And they won’t allow us to have a direct link to the development via any cloud solution - because they cannot monitor the process in this case.
So offering the offline export option to have inspectable boards would be perfect feature to sell licenses especially to everyone working in this kind of project set-ups with similar constrains.
I know we are not the only one having this kind of constrains.
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And what I mean by Sketch Offline-workflow is not the absence of the cloud license but the following options we need in addition:
- It is possible to store sketch files locally - a must for us!
- It is possible to combine the local files with a cloud library - we have basic colours and styles in the cloud library and the rest is in our local files
- It is possible to open a file locally without having a internet connection - crucial for us, since we have to open design files and work on it while being offline
(it seams unimaginable - and we know it’s 2026 - but yes - we are sometimes on construction sites where there is no sufficient connection and we need to open our sketch files anyways and talk to people on site - also train rides, flights etc. still with no connection and opportunity to work on the files - offline) - missing feature ??? It is possible to export all the assets, layouts, boards, measurements and styles in a .zip and upload it to the client with no need for the client to have a sketch license
(a project manager equipped with outlook and a browser must be able to open our work, review it and forward it so someone else)
I hope you all understand our - and the problem of many people, that have heavily relied on this third party plugin.
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@JorgeF Another detail that you may find interesting:
One design teams I know (roughly around 12 people in total) solved the issue by switching to Figma after Athens:
- They did’t need the complete offline workflow, but they also used the meaXture plugin and they needed the offline exported .html
- Their whole workflow broke down with Athens and the long time afterwards the meaXture plugin was not updated - they had to go back to 101.9
- They found out about the Heron Plugin in Figma, that does the exactly same thing and decided to switch completely to Figma only because of this one plugin - not because they liked Figma
- They design online but they need to deliver offline files - that’s it…..
It obviously doesn’t work for us - but it might for others
@JorgeF I hope it can help to convince the team to build in some kind of export possibility in the core product.
To quote ABBA
”So when you′re near me, darling
Can’t you hear me, S.O.S.?
The love you gave me
Nothing else can save me, S.O.S.”
And if you need any further informations or input I am happy to help.
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www.marklion.cn MarkLion u can try,It can export offline.